Sunday, March 13, 2011

Week 28

This week we will be reading 'Busy Buzzy Bee." It is a non fiction story that will give us lots of information about bees. The phonics focus is long o made by o-e. The new vocabulary words are:

another

change

field

touch

twelve

wait

wild

Questions of the Week

Monday - Tell me 5 things that make noise.

Tuesday - It is Nutrition Month. Tell me 5 things that are good for you to eat.

Wednesday - Tell me 5 words that have the long o sound made by o-e.

Thursday - It is St. Patrick's Day. What did you wear that is green?

Friday - It is Youth Art Month. What do you like best. . .paints, crayons, watercolors, etc?

We will spend this week on geometric shapes, both 2 and 3 dimensional. We will continue to do timed tests to build automaticity. Time and money are always something that we work on.

Congratulations to Kayden. He earned his AR shirt this week. Kids seem to be reading all the time. What a difference it has made for the fluency of those who do this. It is so exciting to watch the light bulb go off. Watching children become fluent readers is the highlight of my job!!!